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Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin decuplus (“tenfold”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
décuplo (feminine décupla, masculine plural décuplos, feminine plural décuplas, not comparable)
- decuple (ten times as much)
Noun
décuplo m (plural décuplos)
- decuple
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Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin decuplus (“tenfold”).
Adjective
décuplo (feminine décupla, masculine plural décuplos, feminine plural décuplas)
- decuple (ten times as much)
1836, Mariano José de Larra,
Dios nos asista :
- No es menos importante lo de los treinta años; no es menos simbólico ni cabalístico el número de treinta que el de tres tan citado, y de que es décuplo; treinta días tiene el mes, treinta minutos cada media hora, por treinta dineros vendió judas a un Dios, treinta años representa la vida de un jugador y treinta años, en fin, la capacidad de un Procurador.
- This topic of the thirty years is no less important; no less symbolic and kabbalistic is the number thirty than the so often-cited number three, of which it is decuple; a month has thirty days, every half an hour has thirty minutes, Judas sold a God for thirty coins, the life of a player comprises thirty years, and, finally, thirty years is the capacity of a Procurator.
Noun
décuplo m (plural décuplos)
- decuple amount (ten times as much)
El décuplo de 10 es 100.- The decuple of 10 is 100.
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